Clark Haaland
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Clark Haaland
Novelist Marilynne Robinson on how to handle good luck:
"I can only make sense of my unaccountable good fortune by assuming that it means I am under special obligation to make good use of it."
Source: The Paris Review Interviews: Volume IV
"I can only make sense of my unaccountable good fortune by assuming that it means I am under special obligation to make good use of it."
Source: The Paris Review Interviews: Volume IV
3-2-1: Two steps for better results, the qualities of a great career, and how to handle good luck
Thrive on the Raging Sea
"Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you." - Marcus Aurelius
If you feel overwhelmed, trust me, you're not alone.
But remember this:
The explorer doesn't set out on the voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm to stay perfectly on course.
Rather, the explorer trusts in the preparation and the... See more
"Be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you." - Marcus Aurelius
If you feel overwhelmed, trust me, you're not alone.
But remember this:
The explorer doesn't set out on the voyage trusting that the seas will remain calm to stay perfectly on course.
Rather, the explorer trusts in the preparation and the... See more
Lighthouse Skills: How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
Are you fighting your natural creative rhythms?
mail.google.comWhat Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgThought provoking and Art
In his 2012 essay, “More people should write,” writer and programmer James Somers described this process as creating a mental bucket for an idea, thereby unleashing a magnetic force between that idea and the world:
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular, I’ll remember everything better; everything will mean more to me. That’s because everything I perceive will unconsciously engage on its way in with the substance of my preoccupation. A preoccupation, in that sense, is a hell of a useful thing for a mind.
Once you’ve discovered the right mental buckets, or containers, for your creative work, it’s time to maximize the potential for unexpected connections. But to surface those connections, you also need the right tools.
Reaching our boundaries is not the same as limiting our growth. Sometimes we find our edges and an amazing thing happens; capacity is rebuilt, old wounds are healed and we grow further and more beautifully than before. The process is analogous to mineral growth in rock. Without a surface and a set of containing edges, minerals that we prize for... See more
Donald Winnicott • Article
Too Much Of A Good Thing
This is known as an inverted-U curve:
In their paper, Too Much of a Good Thing, the psychologists Adam Grant and Barry Schwartz reveal the inverted-U-shaped relationship between nearly everything of consequence. Rooted in the ancient philosopher Aristotle’s famous concept of “the golden mean”—“happiness and success are a... See more
This is known as an inverted-U curve:
In their paper, Too Much of a Good Thing, the psychologists Adam Grant and Barry Schwartz reveal the inverted-U-shaped relationship between nearly everything of consequence. Rooted in the ancient philosopher Aristotle’s famous concept of “the golden mean”—“happiness and success are a... See more
SIX at 6: The Inverted-U, Killing Pleasure, The Goldilocks Zone, Too Much Cake, Immigrants To Wealth, and Enough
Billy Oppenheimer
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